Help Chronically Ill Irma Victims

$600
of $50,000 goal

We are a couple both with chronic illnesses which eat up all our income in medical bills. We were hit hard by hurricane Irma, had a tree fall on the roof, and have a $15000 hurricane deductible. Our homeowner's insurance required us to mitigate further damage with temporary repairs (or they wouldn't pay the claim) which we had to make using credit cards. They didn't assign us an adjuster until a month after the storm, and still haven't processed the claim now more than 2 months since Irma. We are running out of money, our roof is leaking, there is now mold in the house which is exacerbating our medical problems being one of us is on oxygen with lung disease (the other has pancreatic cancer). We need to repair the home now to avoid hospitalization, or else just walk away from the home and mortgage. $50,000.00 would allow us to replace the roof and broken windows, and to recoup the hurricane deductible to put toward medical bills. Won't you help us?

Caroline is home from hospital and on ordered bed rest. Not sure what the point of getting vaccines is when they don't work. This is her 3rd bout of pneumonia since getting the pneumonia vaccine. Citizens has STILL not paid our claim. Thankfully it doesn't rain as much this time of year so the roof leaks are at bay for the moment though the mold from leaks following hurricane lingers. The tree guy we paid never came back to finish the job so we still have remainder of 2 toppled trees to contend with but no money to do anything about it.

We are so grateful to receive our first two donations. Every little bit helps. Still no word yet from insurance company regarding our claim. They just keep asking for more pics and sending more forms to fill out. FEMA denied us for all but the initial immediate needs grant ($500 back in Sept), as did the SBA loan program which said we demonstrated no ability to be able to repay it (umm, DUH!) but you had to apply for it & be rejected first to be considered for other aid programs. So that's where we are for now.